Students practice martial arts during morning exercises for the first time at Jiujiang Primary School in East China's Jiangxi province, on May 3, 2013. The school has choreographed a special set of morning exercises combining traditional martial arts and poetry recitation since the beginning of this spring semester. [Photo/ Xinhua]

Residents weigh a little girl with a traditional Chinese scale at a community in Jiande, Zhejiang province. The event on May 5 marked the beginning of the seventh solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar, which indicates the coming of summer. It is said that weighing children on the day brings luck and good health to children in the summer. [Photo by Ning Wenwu / for China Daily]